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Genotyping of Japanese field isolates of Mycoplasma synoviae and rapid molecular differentiation from the MS-H vaccine strain.
Avian diseases - 1 Jun 2011
Ogino Shoji, Munakata Yasuhisa, Ohashi Shuichi, Fukui Masato, Sakamoto Hiroshi, Sekiya Yukio, Noormohammadi Amir H, Morrow Chris J
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma synoviae is an important causative agent of avian mycoplasmosis. In the present study the conserved domain of the variable lipoprotein and hemagglutinin (vlhA) gene of M. synoviae was sequenced and analyzed for 19 field strains of M. synoviae isolated from chickens across Japan. This analysis revealed that there were at least nine genotypes of M. synoviae present in Japan. Furthermore, we found a...
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